Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Caroline Glick gets Americans up
to speed on events in Israel, which is currently using ground troops to
destroy an extensive network of technologically advanced tunnels built by
Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip. In the process, she
also gets us up to speed on just how bad Obama's foreign policy regarding
Israel has been:

Due to their recognition of the threat Hamas and its allies pose to
the survivability of their regimes, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates have taken the unprecedented step of supporting Israel's efforts to
defeat Hamas.

They understand that a decisive Israeli blow against
Hamas in Gaza will directly benefit them. Not only will Hamas be weakened, but
its state sponsors and terrorist comrades will be weakened as well.

Presently, Hamas's most outspoken state sponsors are Qatar and
Turkey.

And later:

IDF forces in Gaza had destroyed 23 tunnels. The number of
additional tunnels is still unknown.

While Israel had killed 183
terrorists, it appeared that most of the terrorists killed were in the low to
middle ranks of Hamas's leadership hierarchy.

Hamas's senior
commanders, as well as its political leadership have hunkered down in hidden
tunnel complexes.

In other words, Israel is making good progress.

But it hasn't completed its missions. It needs several more days
of hard fighting.

Recognizing this, Israel's newfound Muslim
allies have not been pushing for a cease-fire.

In
contrast, the Obama administration is insisting on concluding a cease-fire
immediately. [bold added]

While I regard "allies" is too strong a word to use for the Moslem regimes backing
Israel due to Hamas being a common enemy, it speaks volumes that Israel has the
backing of three such regimes for this offensive, while Barack Obama wants to
bring it to a halt.

The editor of Jewish World Review, where I found this piece, wishes to "make [this article] go viral", and I concur that it deserves to. The parts I have
excerpted are just the tip of the iceberg regarding the threat Hamas poses to
the most civilized nation in the Middle East. Glick also paints a vivid picture
of what having to live near Hamas has meant in the daily lives of Israeli
citizens. That aspect of the article alone makes it a powerful tool against the
pervasive -- and wrong -- notion that both sides in this conflict are morally
equivalent.

5 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Hi Gus,

I find it quite illuminating that Obama, Kerry and Hillary Clinton and all their Leftist ilk never call for a cease-fire when the unending barrage of rockets from Hamas are flying. They only call for one when Israel, at long last, defends itself.

This is a window into the 'morality' of the Left. Like those paragons of justice, the public school teachers who ignore the predation of the school bully, but rush to declare their "zero tolerance for violence" at the first hint of a student defending themself, so the predations of the devout Muslims passes without notice; only an attempt to defend oneself against their initiatory violence is worthy of condemnation. Notice how the "violence" of the Israeli response is universally condemned while the violence of the initiation of force by Hamas disappears into the media ether.

This moral inversion is not accidental. It is the inevitable outcome of any collectivist dogma that clearly sees individualism as its own arch enemy.

Just one more point, this one about tactics. Were I the Israelis, I would begin to pump a neutral mixture of CH4 and O2 into the tunnels, calculating the volume required for full structural saturation, and then, "Ignition!"

In one swoop you destroy the encroaching terrorist infrastructure and their staff locations. If you're really lucky you get the terrorist staff themselves. If not, you drive them to the surface where they can be dispatched by other means.

One wonders if the 3 Israeli teens killed by Hamas when they couldn't take them alive had their deaths facilitated by just such tunnel access to the interior of Israel. Notice how the initiatory killings of those Israelis has somehow fallen off of the Leftist Media radar. (As an additional data point for my previous post.)

I think that both the calls of the US for immediate ceasefire and the agreement of the Israeli's to a ceasefire proposal by Egypt are predicated on the sure bet that Hamas will not be accepting any ceasefire until they are about out of rockets. In other words, these two calls for ceasefire are window dressing while the Israeli's (with our annual weapons funding) gets the job done.

While I sympathize with the idea of wiping out Hamas with explosives, the extent of the tunnel network is (a) mostly unknown and (b) known to pass beneath Israeli homes and kindergardens. No quick tactical solutions here.

But you are on the money regarding how the leftists treat the use of retaliatory force.

Stephen,

Given the past history of this administration and the very long history of pushing for peace talks no matter what by this and many other administrations, I think the calls are sincere, as foolish as they are.

While I sympathize with the idea of wiping out Hamas with explosives, the extent of the tunnel network is (a) mostly unknown and (b) known to pass beneath Israeli homes and kindergardens. No quick tactical solutions here.

But you are on the money regarding how the leftists treat the use of retaliatory force.

Stephen,

Given the past history of this administration and the very long history of pushing for peace talks no matter what by this and many other administrations, I think the calls are sincere, as foolish as they are.